Finally are filming all our footage we were ready to start editing and putting our trailer together. We were lucky enough to be able to use the program Final Cut which is available for Apple Macs however we had no experience of using them and this came as an issue. We had to spend a lot of time learning how to use them by watching tutorial videos and also just learning along the way by trying out new techniques. This became hard as we had so many visions of what we wanted our trailer to look like and what effects we wanted to use but some weren't possible or we didn't have the skills to create it. However, we enjoyed the challenge of using a new program and were grateful the huge range of effects we could use to make our trailer look as professional as possible. We took screen shots along the way to show each stage of the editing process so here is our development.
1st Session
Importing all the clips and viewing them,
Starting to put together our first flash forward sequence of James and Emily’s fight.
2nd Session
Created travelling sequence between Charlie and Pixie in the common room,
Started flash forward sequence for Charlie and Pixie
Started travelling sequence between Adele and Emily
3rd Session
Finished Adele and Emily’s travelling sequence
Played with effects to make split screen clip in Charlie and Pixies flash forward sequence
Started Charlie and James' flash forward sequence
4th Session
Finished Charlie and James’ party flash forward sequence
Finished Charlie and Pixies flash forward sequence
Created establishing sequence of Letchworth
Add some fading effects to beginning and end of each sequence to show transition
5th Session
Finished adding effects
Created final text sequence with soap name, tagline and E4 logo
6th Session
Adjust sound on clips
Peak music volume at specific areas
7th Session
Created character introductions over the establishing sequence after preliminary feedback
8th Session
Exported video to Quicktime and it is complete.
Throughout the project we asked other members of our class, our teacher and friends for feedback on our trailer so that we could improve it and have a different perspective than us. Here is an example of some feedback we received towards the end of the editing process...
